It makes for an interesting wake up call to hear that a tsunami is headed your way.

My prayers to Samoa. A 8.3 earthquake followed by a tsunami early this morning (like 7am.)I'm pretty much refreshing NZHerald like every 5 minutes now.

About an hour ago, the radio stations and the tv stations were all "Tsunami is gonna hit New Zealand. Tsumani warning to all of the country."

So people in the lowlying coastal areas are all evacuating and stuff....And then they're reporting that the wave could be as big as 1 metre.

Okay - unless they're wrong, 1 metre...not that big. I mean yeah, it is big - but not possible killing whole town big.And I mean where I live, we're all along the beachfront. And if we did get hit by a tsunami as big as like the Boxing Day Tsunamis that while back...then well my whole area would be submerged.

1 metre...It's enough to tell someone to stay off the beach.But I think it would be pretty safe to go to the park. haha

And those so-called "hardcore" surfers to surf the wave. 1 metre...that's a pretty good wave. But don't be idiots.

But yeah, so I'm just chilling at home, watching the weather. It's raining on and off at the mo...but I don't see my street being submerged any more than it was last night in the massive storm yesterday. (which was very minimal - lightning was fun to watch :D)

Makes me a little glad that I'm not on holiday up in like Whangarei Heads like I was last November. Cause where we stayed there, the water reached the back step at high tide.

So to all the joking aside, I do hope you folks round NZ are all safe, and that the people of Samoa have as little casualities as possible.

And to be honest, I wouldn't have the clue if the tsunami has hit my part of the country at the mo...Could have passed already for all I know lol.

I've been meaning to make a new blog title for a while now. (Or at least for the 1 year birthday) but with school being so hectic at the time, I hadn't had the chance to till tonight.

What's the verdict on it?I got a new layout too...I don't know how keen I am just yet on this.Sadly enough to say, I'm still on templates. Gosh I hate templates.But I'm not web-savvy enough yet to know HTML codes and whatever etc etc to build my own website.(Which bugs me, I think I could have gotten a sweet job for this comic company to build them a website, if my HTML language wasn't confined to HTML language inside a blog post. All I can manage is italics, fonts, bold, underlines, and occasionally I can remember how to get links to open in a new window....[/end nerdness])

Oh well, life goal (or short term "maybe when its summer holidays" goal.):LEARN HTML CODING.

But for now, if you refresh fast enough, you may be able to see the existing template underneath the blog header. XD

currently: listening to "Pyramid Song" by Radiohead in bed. (I mean I'm in bed listening to Radiohead. Not that Radiohead is in bed with me. That would be odd...)So hey, 10 points to whoever can figure out what this is.

But anyway, random webcam playing aside, got a very random but very cool Facebook ad just before.

Odd right?But hey, check out that description.http://www.sooshi.co.nz/Icecream that looks like sushi. GENIUS.Actually it really isn't. It's just very odd, and gives you that whole "Oooh I'm cool cause I eat foreign food" feeling.Also gives people that help to overcome their fear of sushi which I know a couple of my friends seem to face.

Anyway, I got myself a voucher. As soon as I have the chance, I'm getting one of these :D

They call it the convertible/infinity dress. Personally I think the infinity dress just sounds WAY cooler haha.

But this type of dress is suppose to allow you to make dozens (or infinity) of different styles and stuff, with the one dress.Which I think is TOTALLY AWESOME.Cause think about it, you're at a party, things are getting boring - change your dress!Well that's not exactly the cure to liven up a party, but hey, you'd feel cool trying to come up with different style and stuff.

So that is my goal for these school holidays. To make myself a dress like that.

There's a certain amount of relief and happiness that comes from completing something.Even if it is a crappy excuse for a design brief that was suppose to be of high quality over 3 terms.

But yay! Thankgoodness. It's handed in. 7 pages of pure crap, followed by 3 technical pages of terrible, looks like year 9 work. And at least the rendered drawing looks alright.

But honestly, after I handed it in about half an hour before lunch ended, I was like a puddle of happiness. Just the feeling that now I didn't have to really work on it anymore - phew. I can now concentrate on other important things!

So, I'm searching up pictures of Spongebob (its part of my homework! Journalism to be exact) and I come across this in Google Images.[From here]Does anyone see the coolness factor in that costume? XDAnd I bet it isn't that hard to pull off yourself. Brown skirt, make a fake white belt with a tiny red tie, and a Spongebob shirt. And that is the formula for awesome. :P

Today's handful of happiness come today in the form of a bright red packet:

MALTESERS. yay :P

They're like light little balls of joy. Except not so annoying cause when you hit people with these light little balls of joy - they don't hurt as much as say M&Ms. Which I would describe as deadly pellets of happiness. XD (Reminds me of a certain Switchfoot Podcast episode...haha)

You know those songs that you hear, that make your heart want to sing out?This song is one of those songs.

This is the song that is gonna MAKE Hello Hurricane (Switchfoot's new album, released November 10th *plug* ooh which is the 2nd to last day of school, and last full day of school EVER for me...) be very much awesome for me.

It's just so amazing. Puts me in a great daydream.

"Hallelujah, I'm caving in.Hallelujah, I'm in love again.Hallelujah, I'm a wretched man.Hallelujah, every breath is a second chance."[Always - Switchfoot]

A sermon from Andi Andrews at Get Smart 2009 during the High School segment.

Relationships:There are two fundemental relationships.1) Relationship with God.2) Relationship that flows from that (aka everyone else)

The fight of Flesh versus Spirit(16)So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. (17)For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. (18)But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.-Galatians 5:16-18

Two questions:1) Do you tent towards waling int he spirit of walking in the flesh?2) What fruit are you bearing in those relationships?

The Fruits of The Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)Love - It's a choice. To love someone as much as God loves them. It gives a standard to work at and reach. Forgiveness is important.Joy - Choose joy, even in the hardest times. Find it in God.Peace - Make peace situations, even if you don't want to.Patience - You can't make people change, you have to let them.Kindness - even in tough situations.Goodness - Let wholesome talk come out of your mouth.Faithfulness - with words and actions.Self Control - in your words, your body, in actions and in anger.

Sometimes everyone needs a reminder of this.There's a lot to love. It's what we as humans seek for. We are wanting acceptance, we are wanting someone to care, and someone to love us fully.Sometimes I forget that God loves me the most. No one else can love me like any other. I can get caught up in all my human emotions and then I lose the small voice in my head that is saying how God cares for me.

In those moments, I remember- where is God in my heart?

I need, and I want, to remember that God is always first in my life.That's why when I feel at my worst, I want God to be the one to cleanse me of my mistakes.

It's been ages since my last post.And trust me, its not like I'm trying to make this a common thing, posting once a week.Currently have exam week at school, just sent off my design portfolio the other day to uni...Fingers crossed for me aye.

Anyway, surfing the 'tube.Or rather I got this on my iTunes Podcast subscription to Relient K - and I haven't been on iTunes in a couple of months so I only saw this now.

You know, I have a certain amount of guilt when I haven't posted in ages.Its like when you haven't talked to that friend in a while, or haven't replied to that email, or that message....

Thing is though that there really isn't much to talk about.Uni applications are gonna make me stressed. I'm trying to make a DVD for my design portfolio...not easy. Mostly cause I haven't really started...

Exactly ONE year ago, I made my first blogpost (on this blog anyway).And now here we are, one year later, exactly 200 blog posts since then, in an attempt to communicate with...well absolutely no one.(much like Twitter. XD)

You'd think I'd have better things to do with my time.Happy birthday blog!

The girl.

NZ blogger in the middle of life, love, the world and all that inhabits it. A web addict for radio by day; a web addict in general by night. Writing about the world, travels, food, pop culture and lifestyle.